[rollei_list] Re: slide viewer
- From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:53:52 -0400
At 08:41 PM 9/25/05 -0700, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>Mary,
>
>I recommend a small light table and a good magnifier for
>quick evaluation of a large number of slides.
If Mary can locate that magnificent baby light-table produced by Carl Zeiss
Jena up to the time of its demise at its Eisfeld plant and can obtain the
set of macro lenses produced and that plant and can find, the easiest part
of the travail, a TURMON, one of those 8x21 folding monculars made by Carl
Zeiss Jena for the seventy years from 1921 and made thereafter by Doctor
Optik, she will be in business.
I have the complete set and this is what I use to examine slides. The
diopter lenses are optically grand, the set up works well, and the results
are wonderful.
Of course, simply OWNING a TURMON is a delight in itself (I own four of
these, including one of the purple Doctor models and a Wray UK clone) as
these guys deserve grand credit: what industrial product has remained in
production for 84 years? VW Beetles? B-52 Bombers? Nimrod Pipelighters?
Even Solex carburetters are now made in India under the Bocar label.
When the TURMON was introduced, the standard fighter plane had two wings.
They were still producing freighters with Triple-Expansion steam engines.
Milk was to remain available at your door every morning for another sixty
years. Radio was a cuple of years away and talkies didn't have much of an
impact until a decade later. Lloyd George was still the Prime Minister of
the UK and Harding had yet to be murdered by his wife over the Nan Britt
matter. Und so weiter. A product is introduced in one era and survives to
today as a marketable item for manufacture.
Consider the Virginia Opossum. This first appeared during the Cretaceous
Era some 75 million years ago, and it is still doing business at the same
familiar apple stand. The Virginia Opossum was one of the few South
American marsupials to survive the contact between North and South America
13 million years (?) back, and it has been moving northwards ever since.
Given time, the North Pole will be owned by some subspecies of the
Oppossum, and we shall lament the extinction of its placental rival, the
raccoon. Pogo rules!
The TURMON is the Virginia Opossum of optical gear. There probably exists
a specialist microscope device which outdoes our monocular of distinciton,
but, for an item aimed at a mass market and produced int numbers for that
market and sold to that market, the TURMON takes the cake.
If you can find the diopter set and the light table, your life is clean and
pure. These are no longer available from Doctor Optisk but, then, I've not
asked: I got mine in the fire sale they ran right after CZJ tanked, a
decade and more back. But it makes a wonderful device to use for the
examination of slides and negatives.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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